In this guest post, teacher Maria Adamson shares techniques for drawing students into the messiness of history, and giving them practice asking critically minded questions of the sources they encounter. Using this approach, she developed two new teaching activities focusing on identification papers of several Chinese people who were "on exhibit" in an ethnographic display in Philadelphia in 1899.
Tag: imperialism
New DocsTeach Activity: Petition Against the Annexation of Hawaii
Students analyze a petition signed by over 50% of the native Hawaiian population against becoming a part of the United States